What's your definition of "special school"?
I started at CID (Central Institute for the Deaf). I don't know if that's considered a "special school". I was only there for a few years. When I moved to Texas at the age of 5, I went to mainstream school. I was placed in deaf education classes. Again, would this be considered "special classes"? When I entered the 3rd grade, I was partially mainstreamed... mainly for science and math. In the 7th grade, I only had deaf classes for science and english. By the 8th grade, I was fully mainstreamed.